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Letter

Source:

envelope

letter

Relation:

Internment and Transit Camps Correspondence

Creator:

Lantier, Henri

Sender:

Lantier, Henri

Recipient:

His wife in Lagnhet (Alpes-Maritimes)

Date:

May 1940

Language:

fre

Notes:

1 of 16 letters to his wife from the Camp des Garrigues during May 1940 while Lantier was a soldier. He must have been released into civilian life in 1940 after the German invasion of France and was arrested a few years later and put in the camp in Modane. During the Occupation, the camp des Garrigues became an
internment camp for refugees.

Prison & Prisoner

Internment Camp:

Modane (Camp de Garrigues)

Coverage:

France

Prisoner Name:

Lantier, Henri

Series & Subject

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection

Sub-series:

Letters from Modane

Technical

Rights:

Rights: Copyright: The creator of the document, or his or her Estate. McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.